I would like to inform the Wikisource community that haunts the mailing list that a
nomination has been made to appoint a CheckUser for English Wikisource. A similar
announcement has been placed at Wikisource:Scriptorium.
The nomination is for Spangineer, and it can be located at
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Administrators#Nominations_for_Che…
The community is invited to participate in the process.
As background John Vandenberg has voluntarily returned his bit during his annual
confirmation.
Regards, Andrew
Here a quote from a current thread into wikitech-l.
Using #lst to implement variables into wikitext is really "a terrible hack"
in your opinion too...? If it is, I feel myself really uncomfortable and
depressed... :-(
I'd like a clear statement about, and - if needed - clearly stated limits in
the use of #lst (that IMHO is implicitely something that "implements named
variables" into wikitext, simply calling those variables "named sections")
Alex
2011/1/4 Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com>
> What a "creative" use of #lst allows, if it is really an efficient, light
> routine, is to build named variables and arrays of named variables into
> one
> page; I can't imagine what a good programmer could do with such a powerful
> tool. I'm, as you can imagine, far from a good programmer, nevertheless I
> built easily routines for unbeliavable results. Perhaps, coming back to
> the
> topic..... a good programmer would disrupt wikipedia using #lst? :-)
Using #lst to implement variables in wikitext sounds like a terribl
hack, similar to how using {{padleft:}} to implement string functions
in wikitext is a terrible hack.
Thanks Roan, your statement sound very alarming for me; I'll open a specific
thread about into wikisource-l quoting this talk. I'm doing any efford to
avoid server/history overload, since I know that I am using a free service
(I just fixed {{loop}} template to optimize it into it.source, at my
best...) and if you are right, I've to change deeply my approach to #lst.
Happy new year to list members!
Now a question. While fighting with subtle, but hard, formatting questions,
mainly found into our source "border of chaos" (t.i. the end of a nsPage
page), I found that many from them can be solved with html/css code; and
I'm using more and more explicit html tags into pages, to test them and to
build user-friendly templates after a thorough testing.
My question is: why precisely the use of explicit html/css tags is
discouraged, in favour of templates? Is there some server issue, or is it
simply a matter of "user-friendly" code politics? I guess, that many users
will get lots of advantages, if they could use more largely html/css, and if
they would be encouraged to go deeper and depper into html/css language
studying excellent tutorials as those of w3c schools.
Alex brollo